With the explosive growth of Big Tech’s data centers threatening to overload U.S. electricity grids, policymakers are taking a hard look at a tough-love solution: bumping the energy-hungry centers off grids during power emergencies.
In raw numbers, 72,419 more girls than boys who graduated from Indiana high schools from 2009 to 2023 went on to higher education, according to the Indiana Commission for Higher Education’s College Going Dashboard.
With the City-County Council approaching a Sept. 22 public hearing over the 467-acre project, IBJ looked into many of the questions being asked about the controversial development.
Since the start of the year, Morgan County officials have rezoned nearly 400 acres of farmland for light industrial use and approved a series of tax abatements to make way for the project.
The vote, initiated by Republican Councilor Michael-Paul Hart, sets a Sept. 22 public hearing before the full council to review rezoning of 467 acres for Google’s proposed project.
“The governor has been very clear: We’re just not in the land development business, and it’s not a core competency,” Commerce Secretary David Adams told IBJ.
The community center is the latest major project to provide amenities for residents in a city that has grown in population over the past 35 years from 7,500 people to 104,000.
Four years after the project was first proposed, the group is still submitting and altering plans for the rest of the project on several former industrial properties along the Monon Trail.
The administration’s cancellation of the $500 million grant for machinery to trap and bury the plant’s greenhouse gas left the staunchly Republican community stunned.
The recently established Indy Health District is dedicated to reducing health inequity across Indianapolis. It stretches from St. Clair Street north to 38th Street, encompassing 1,500 acres.
Intended to be eye-catching, it would visually intrude at the busy intersection and create an unnecessary crash-risk for motorists who navigate an already visually complex intersection much traveled by motorized vehicles and pedestrians, bicyclists and scooters.
The plan, being developed through a partnership between the city and a to-be-identified urban planner, is expected to be made public in the coming weeks, Mayor Scott Willis said Wednesday during an IBJ real estate event.
A recent survey by the Indiana Fiscal Policy Institute reveals the reasons why students and adult learners don’t take advantage of on-the-job training.
The tech giant’s plan to develop the massive data center in Franklin Township was bolstered by a city commission’s vote Wednesday to grant preliminary approval to the company’s request to rezone nearly 470 acres for the project.
A developer under criticism for previous work on an affordable housing project on the near-northwest side of Indianapolis has received initial city approval for financing help on the development’s next phase, but with several new requirements.
Plans call for a five-story building with 210 age-restricted apartments, 12,000 square feet of amenity space, a 356-space parking garage and a 1.54-acre park and trail dedicated to veterans of the United States military.
